Before a Fixed Deposit can be collected or transferred, the Customer/Owner
of the Account must initially Liquidate the Fixed Deposit. If Liquidated, the
Fund is supposed to drop into the Current Account. But in this instance, the
Fixed Deposit was not booked through the Current Account and the
Customer would have to issue out Two Instructions at once. The First
Instruction would be to liquidate and the second would be to give the details
of where the Money was meant to go.
She was shown the Statement of February 2005 at Page 2 of Exhibit FF, and
noted that on the 1st February 2005, the Account Position was Zero (“0”).
PW6, Mr. Abdulkadir Nagari, the Assistant Chief Accountant of the Ministry
of Finance stated that after collecting the Cash Receipt of Salman Global
Ventures Nigeria Limited, which is dated the 7th of January 2005, as
informed in Exhibit CC, Ten Days after, Salman Global Ventures Nigeria
Limited, did not Supply the Stationeries and Office Equipment paid through
the Cheque of Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N250, 000, 000).
He again raised another alarm, initially referring to the Page where he had
earlier raised an alarm and querying the fact that he has not seen any
materials in regard to the supply, brought to the Ministry of Finance and he
demanded to know the position. Even though PW6, Mr. Abdulkadir Nagari’s
Query Alarm was raised sooner than the expected date of delivery, he
capsulated this evidence by stating that up and until the time he left the
Ministry of Finance in June 2005, the Supplier, Salman Global Limited, who
collected the Cheque on Friday the 6th of January 2005, did not supply a
Single Sheet of Paper, and the Time Limit to supply the Goods was Two
Weeks.
PW7, Mrs. Asabe Maiangwa, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of
Finance, in her testimony in Chief stated that she played no role in regard to
this Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N250, 000, 000) and did
not receive Stationeries, as the Major Players in this Transaction were the
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